Nvidia RTX graphics cards

[red_slr]

1080Ti is basically half the cost, £629 currently the cheapest one on Scan.

I wonder what that will do to used prices.

[Type R Tom]

red_slr said:

1080Ti is basically half the cost, £629 currently the cheapest one on Scan.

I wonder what that will do to used prices.

I think the interesting comparison will be the 2070 and the 1080ti which are about the same price

[Matthen]

Type R Tom said:

red_slr said:

1080Ti is basically half the cost, £629 currently the cheapest one on Scan.

I wonder what that will do to used prices.

I think the interesting comparison will be the 2070 and the 1080ti which are about the same price

Yet the 1080ti is sure to be the better card for conventional gaming. I'm holding fire until I see some benchmarks. RT is nice, but I need compute....

[essayer]

I haven't bought a graphics card in ages but got an email from ebuyer today about these

People actually spend £1000 on graphics cards?

[bloomen]

I can't say I've ever pined for this ray tracing stuff. Looks nice enough. They haven't released any other performance figures. I wonder when the laptop stuff pops along.

[wisbech]

essayer said:

I haven't bought a graphics card in ages but got an email from ebuyer today about these

People actually spend £1000 on graphics cards?

Some people spend much more than that on a watch! Other people’s hobbies are wierd...

[Spanna]

anonymous said:

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I may be interested, post here if you do wish to ship one on. I have two builds, one has a 1080 and the other a 1060, so I can do some manoeuvring with the cards if I upgrade.

[essayer]

wisbech said:

Some people spend much more than that on a watch! Other people’s hobbies are wierd...

Sure, but the price of graphics cards is like 4-5x what it used to be - no other PC component has spiked upwards so much and the features aren't that groundbreaking

Is it people just buying and hoping that prices stay elevated due to the cryptomining boom?

[red_slr]

Will be interesting to see what the new cards do in VR. The 1080 and 1080ti did not give as much of a jump as people thought and some systems went backards!

[Monty Python]

The other thing that's just dawned on me is that these cards are really meant for 4K screens, yet the number of G-Sync monitors of this resolution is dwarfed by the number of those with Freesync. Seems to me that either (a) Nvidia need to make G-Sync cheaper or (b) they missed an opportunity to include Freesync support.

[Mothersruin]

I've got a GTX 780 that is still surprisingly capable, but I think it may be time for an upgrade to at least something like a 1060 - the prices aren't as bad as I thought and may fall a wee bit more once the new set comes out.

CPU should be fine - i5 3570 that runs at 4.2GHz

[Bullett]

I've got a 3570 with a 980ti, not come across anything it can't run as yet including VR.

[8bit]

Very expensive, yes - but it's getting to the point now that the GPU card is the most important component in a gaming PC. CPUs have more cores now than games know what to do with and enough onboard cache memory that super-fast, low-latency RAM isn't as critical as it was. Everyone's got SSDs now and in many cases they're directly on the PCIe bus. In a gaming PC all these things do is support the GPU so you can save cash elsewhere to go toward a GPU.

Still a big chunk of change to have to find for a new card though.

Monty Python said:

The other thing that's just dawned on me is that these cards are really meant for 4K screens, yet the number of G-Sync monitors of this resolution is dwarfed by the number of those with Freesync. Seems to me that either (a) Nvidia need to make G-Sync cheaper or (b) they missed an opportunity to include Freesync support.

They can't include Freesync support now, not without massively upsetting all the monitor manufacturers who stumped up their licencing costs for G-Sync and all the customers who took the hit on the more expensive monitors.

[deckster]

8bit said:

They can't include Freesync support now, not without massively upsetting all the monitor manufacturers who stumped up their licencing costs for G-Sync and all the customers who took the hit on the more expensive monitors.

I think the point is that there aren't enough of them that did! Betamax anybody?

[PHuzzy]

Bullett said:

I've got a 3570 with a 980ti, not come across anything it can't run as yet including VR.

I bet it can't max the settings on Project Cars 2 in VR
That is the only reason I'm tempted to change, if I could max those settings with the 2080 or 2080Ti then for me it'd be worth the step up but I can't see it having enough of a jump to do it but I'll wait to see the reviews.

[bloomen]

I have a 1080ti on my desktop. I'm not going to bother upgrading until a card can do 4k ultra at high frame rates. I'm not sure how many generations that's going to take but it doesn't sound like this one is going to be it yet.

[Bullett]

PHuzzy said:

I bet it can't max the settings on Project Cars 2 in VR
That is the only reason I'm tempted to change, if I could max those settings with the 2080 or 2080Ti then for me it'd be worth the step up but I can't see it having enough of a jump to do it but I'll wait to see the reviews.

Fair point. PC2 has never worked well for me on any machine. My current VR machine is running a 1080 and I have to turn the settings down. I’ve ordered a pimax 8k so a 2080 of some sort might also be in my future but I’m not rushing.

[PHuzzy]

Bullett said:

PHuzzy said:

I bet it can't max the settings on Project Cars 2 in VR
That is the only reason I'm tempted to change, if I could max those settings with the 2080 or 2080Ti then for me it'd be worth the step up but I can't see it having enough of a jump to do it but I'll wait to see the reviews.

Fair point. PC2 has never worked well for me on any machine. My current VR machine is running a 1080 and I have to turn the settings down. I’ve ordered a pimax 8k so a 2080 of some sort might also be in my future but I’m not rushing.

Aha I was semi joking, my 1080Ti won't run it all on max with a decent SS rate either so it'll be interesting to see what these cards bring but I really can't see them making a huge leap, well big enough to run that all on max with 1.6+ super sampling, I'm guessing a 15-20% increase where really I'm hoping for a 40% increase before I trade up.

[scorp]

bloomen said:

I have a 1080ti on my desktop. I'm not going to bother upgrading until a card can do 4k ultra at high frame rates. I'm not sure how many generations that's going to take but it doesn't sound like this one is going to be it yet.

It's going to be a few generations, 4k@144 is around 9 times the bandwidth of 1080p@60.

[Monty Python]

deckster said:

I think the point is that there aren't enough of them that did! Betamax anybody?

I bet most, if not all monitor manufacturers, would dump G-Sync in a second - nobody likes being tied to a single supplier. Also, when you look at the ratio of Freesync:G-Sync monitors, it's the opposite of the market share that AMD and Nvidia have.